JOSEPH A. MILLER is an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Buffalo State, where he has taught drawing and painting since 1997. He earned his B.F.A. from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania (1990) and his M.F.A. in painting and drawing from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1993).

Miller’s work has been exhibited widely across the United States—from Berkeley to Cambridge—as well as internationally in Finland, China, Poland, and the Czech Republic. His paintings and drawings are held in numerous public and private collections. He has exhibited at institutions such as the Arnot Art Museum, Castellani Art Museum, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center in New York; the Allentown Art Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, and Erie Art Museum in Pennsylvania; and the Springville Museum of Art in Utah.

Over the years, Miller has received numerous awards, including First Place in Art in Times of Anxiety at the A.D. Gallery in North Carolina; First Place for Drawing in the 26th Arts North International at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Minnesota; and First Place at the New Contemporary Realism Exhibition at Mills Pond Gallery in New York. He also received a Purchase Award and a People’s Choice Award in Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century at the Royal Nebeker Gallery in Oregon; First Place in Manifest Gallery’s International Drawing Annual V in Cincinnati; and Best in Show at the National Drawing and Painting Exhibition at the Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University. His work has also earned two Purchase Awards from Wright State University Art Galleries in Ohio.

Miller has lectured on his work at institutions including the University of Colorado at Boulder, Daemen College, Southern Utah University, the University of Utah, Utah State University, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, where his work was featured in Beyond/In Western New York 2005.